In her feature film work, Palestinian-American writer-director-actor Cherien Dabis has been telling intimately specific familial stories since “Amreeka” (2009). That was the filmmaker’s ...
As parents Salim (Saleh Bakri) and Hanan (Dabis) try to make do with what they can, the crisis we saw in the beginning weighs heavy. Even as the flash forward is a slightly contrived and overused ...
All That's Left of You is Dabis's third feature, following Amreeka (2009) and May in the Summer (2013), both of which had their world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Dabis ...
Dabis wasn’t able to seize the same level of narrative confidence in “May in the Summer” (2013), but certain moments and ideas in her new film, “All That’s Left of You,” remind one of ...